Welcome!

Welcome to the new website for Civil Association St. Bernadette's Children's Projects, in San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru. St Bernadette's is a non-profit making organization providing free services for children and adolescents in the local and surrounding area, including a Children's Centre, Remedial School, Children's Residential Home, and community outreach program.

St. Bernadette’s Children’s Centre

St. Bernadette´s Children’s Centre, known locally as Casa del Niño y de la Niña, is a Children’s Centre providing services for children between the ages of 3 and 16.

St. Bernadette’s Remedial School

In order to promote child protection it is necessary to develop Prevention Programmes directed to other organizations and educational institutions, at primary, secondary and university level, with the finality of harnessing protection techniques at a personal and family level.

Those of us working in the area of Child Sexual Abuse see the pain and suffering of the children affected on a daily basis. This calls us to move beyond the work within the walls of the Children’s Home in order to confront this reality in society through prevention, education and the detection of cases of abuse, even those that are hidden.

From the very start we realized the importance of also working with the parents of the children who frequent our Centres. The initial ‘warning bell’ came early in the life of the Children’s Centre where we tried to inculcate values in the children through the way we related to them, however, the reality in their homes was often very different,

We offer the service of a Child Protection Desk which promotes the defense of the Human Rights of the Children, as stated by the law, through the counseling of people who come to seek help for family violence, child mistreatment, abandonment or sexual abuse etc.

I was feeling so alone in the middle of this problem;
justice was so slow and distant.
I did not know what to do with my little daughter
to protect her and cure her of her depression,
her nightmares, of her resistance to eating,
of all the damage which had been inflicted on her.
It was the Home which appeared like a divine blessing;
I am so grateful.